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I found my first "shutdown" furloughed worker . . .

as seen on tv

as seen on tv

Senator
It's the husband of a woman i work with. He's a "six sigma black belt" (whatever that is), who provides consulting advice on military procurement projects.

he's at home watching TV. she's now the principal breadwinner.

I'm not celebrating their misfortune in any way, but if you asked me if a "six sigma black belt working on miliatary procurement" is an esstential worker, i'd have agreed its not.

in related news - president obama has apparently decided to suspend ALL paychecks to troops in uniform. This despite the fact that the house specified they be paid. Obama is still claiming that the pain and suffering is being unilaterally inflicted by the GOP with no democratic party responsiblity, and those with poor intellectual skills will probably agree.

on the other hand this might be a shrewd move by obama - to suspend military pay. they evidently vote 95% republican in election years anyway. why not bitch slap our troops as a way to show his displeasure for their voting inclinations, eh?

seize the moment, mr obama.
 
as seen on tv said:
It's the husband of a woman i work with. He's a "six sigma black belt" (whatever that is), who provides consulting advice on military procurement projects.

he's at home watching TV. she's now the principal breadwinner.

I'm not celebrating their misfortune in any way, but if you asked me if a "six sigma black belt working on miliatary procurement" is an esstential worker, i'd have agreed its not.

in related news - president obama has apparently decided to suspend ALL paychecks to troops in uniform. This despite the fact that the house specified they be paid. Obama is still claiming that the pain and suffering is being unilaterally inflicted by the GOP with no democratic party responsiblity, and those with poor intellectual skills will probably agree.

on the other hand this might be a shrewd move by obama - to suspend military pay. they evidently vote 95% republican in election years anyway. why not bitch slap our troops as a way to show his displeasure for their voting inclinations, eh?

seize the moment, mr obama.
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Another story to get you caught up on current events:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...l-be-paid-if-government-shuts-down/?hpt=hp_t1
 
as seen on tv said:
It's the husband of a woman i work with. He's a "six sigma black belt" (whatever that is), who provides consulting advice on military procurement projects.

he's at home watching TV. she's now the principal breadwinner.

I'm not celebrating their misfortune in any way, but if you asked me if a "six sigma black belt working on miliatary procurement" is an esstential worker, i'd have agreed its not.

in related news - president obama has apparently decided to suspend ALL paychecks to troops in uniform. This despite the fact that the house specified they be paid. Obama is still claiming that the pain and suffering is being unilaterally inflicted by the GOP with no democratic party responsiblity, and those with poor intellectual skills will probably agree.

on the other hand this might be a shrewd move by obama - to suspend military pay. they evidently vote 95% republican in election years anyway. why not bitch slap our troops as a way to show his displeasure for their voting inclinations, eh?

seize the moment, mr obama.
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I have a friend at the National Zoo. He's in PR at FONZ. He gets 4 hours today...then off until. He's heading down to OC to play some golf.

I have a friend who is an archivist in Suitland. He's off until...He'll likely stay home and work in his garden and yard.
 
as seen on tv said:
It's the husband of a woman i work with. He's a "six sigma black belt" (whatever that is), who provides consulting advice on military procurement projects.

he's at home watching TV. she's now the principal breadwinner.

I'm not celebrating their misfortune in any way, but if you asked me if a "six sigma black belt working on miliatary procurement" is an esstential worker, i'd have agreed its not.

in related news - president obama has apparently decided to suspend ALL paychecks to troops in uniform. This despite the fact that the house specified they be paid. Obama is still claiming that the pain and suffering is being unilaterally inflicted by the GOP with no democratic party responsiblity, and those with poor intellectual skills will probably agree.

on the other hand this might be a shrewd move by obama - to suspend military pay. they evidently vote 95% republican in election years anyway. why not bitch slap our troops as a way to show his displeasure for their voting inclinations, eh?

seize the moment, mr obama.
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Six Sigma is a set of strategies, techniques, and tools for process improvement.

Kinda oxymoronic given the dude is in military procurement.

;-)
 
as seen on tv said:
It's the husband of a woman i work with. He's a "six sigma black belt" (whatever that is), who provides consulting advice on military procurement projects.

he's at home watching TV. she's now the principal breadwinner.

I'm not celebrating their misfortune in any way, but if you asked me if a "six sigma black belt working on miliatary procurement" is an esstential worker, i'd have agreed its not.

in related news - president obama has apparently decided to suspend ALL paychecks to troops in uniform. This despite the fact that the house specified they be paid. Obama is still claiming that the pain and suffering is being unilaterally inflicted by the GOP with no democratic party responsiblity, and those with poor intellectual skills will probably agree.

on the other hand this might be a shrewd move by obama - to suspend military pay. they evidently vote 95% republican in election years anyway. why not bitch slap our troops as a way to show his displeasure for their voting inclinations, eh?

seize the moment, mr obama.
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My sister in law works for the government, doing medical work. She's considered "non-essential," since the work she does is of a long-term research variety. However, if you think it through, even that kind of long-term work could have a big human impact.

For privacy's sake, I won't get into my sister-in-law's real details, but let's say she works for the FDA (she doesn't) testing drug safety. And let's say we're twelve months of testing from some life-saving drug getting approved for use in treating a disease, and we have a three-week shutdown, so that instead it gets approved twelve months and three weeks from now. That's three extra weeks of non-treatment. Maybe it's a test for a new antibiotic to be used on infections that are resistant to existing antibiotics. That three weeks might be the exact three weeks in which someone you love comes down with that kind of resistant infection, and the antibiotic isn't available, and so she dies. I know that's awfully manipulative to frame it that way, but the kind of "noncritical" indirect life-saving work done by government that goes away in a shutdown WILL have that impact on some people. It's inevitable. The FDA is losing 45% of its staff for the duration, and as a result will cease many inspections, monitoring, and enforcement actions, and suspend the "majority" of its internal lab research. It would be foolish to imagine that won't have a very serious real, human impact. Same with work by the CDC, OSHA, etc.
 
as seen on tv said:
It's the husband of a woman i work with. He's a "six sigma black belt" (whatever that is), who provides consulting advice on military procurement projects.

he's at home watching TV. she's now the principal breadwinner.

I'm not celebrating their misfortune in any way, but if you asked me if a "six sigma black belt working on miliatary procurement" is an esstential worker, i'd have agreed its not.

in related news - president obama has apparently decided to suspend ALL paychecks to troops in uniform. This despite the fact that the house specified they be paid. Obama is still claiming that the pain and suffering is being unilaterally inflicted by the GOP with no democratic party responsiblity, and those with poor intellectual skills will probably agree.

on the other hand this might be a shrewd move by obama - to suspend military pay. they evidently vote 95% republican in election years anyway. why not bitch slap our troops as a way to show his displeasure for their voting inclinations, eh?

seize the moment, mr obama.
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Military should have been exempt.
Obama just wanted to make it hurt.
He's not only inept, he's a total assh-you know what.
Bitch slapping the troops is right up his Nancy little alley.
 
as seen on tv said:
It's the husband of a woman i work with. He's a "six sigma black belt" (whatever that is), who provides consulting advice on military procurement projects.

he's at home watching TV. she's now the principal breadwinner.

I'm not celebrating their misfortune in any way, but if you asked me if a "six sigma black belt working on miliatary procurement" is an esstential worker, i'd have agreed its not.

in related news - president obama has apparently decided to suspend ALL paychecks to troops in uniform. This despite the fact that the house specified they be paid. Obama is still claiming that the pain and suffering is being unilaterally inflicted by the GOP with no democratic party responsiblity, and those with poor intellectual skills will probably agree.

on the other hand this might be a shrewd move by obama - to suspend military pay. they evidently vote 95% republican in election years anyway. why not bitch slap our troops as a way to show his displeasure for their voting inclinations, eh?

seize the moment, mr obama.
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I'd wager you would be quite a lot more sympathetic if he were a six-sigma white belt.

Beltist!!

Get yourself to a workshop for de-programming, chop-chop.
 
Jen said:
Military should have been exempt.
Obama just wanted to make it hurt.
He's not only inept, he's a total assh-you know what.
Bitch slapping the troops is right up his Nancy little alley.
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Obviously you IGNORE the fact that his top post was refuted!

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_new...wn-begins-as-congress-remains-deadlocked?lite

"I'd think someone as well read as you would've read about the military funding extension the President signed last night. It's right there in the article I linked, about 2/3 of the way down."

...What the hell is wrong with you Righties??? Even after a lie gets straightened out you continue repeating the LIE and repeating it and repeating it!

Righties: Stop LYING!
 
Jen said:
Military should have been exempt.
Obama just wanted to make it hurt.
He's not only inept, he's a total assh-you know what.
Bitch slapping the troops is right up his Nancy little alley.
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They did carve out military personnel, which is a bit ridiculous. They should have done like they did with all the other government employees -- furloughing non-essential workers without pay. Better to share the pain evenly. That's especially true when you recall that our military is VASTLY overfunded. Most other areas of government are already dealing with what amounts to skeleton crews (when you compare relative to the kind of spending other wealthy nations do in those areas), whereas our military is funded at a level several times as much, on a per capita or per GDP basis, as an average nation. So, you could cut into the military without hitting much more than fat, whereas cutting into non-military spending inevitably means cutting into the bone, since most of the fat was sliced away years ago. But, sadly, the Democrats are as addled by militarism in this country as the Republicans, so military pay was the one area of funding that was treated as a scared cow.
 
Arkady said:
They did carve out military personnel, which is a bit ridiculous. They should have done like they did with all the other government employees -- furloughing non-essential workers without pay. Better to share the pain evenly. That's especially true when you recall that our military is VASTLY overfunded. Most other areas of government are already dealing with what amounts to skeleton crews (when you compare relative to the kind of spending other wealthy nations do in those areas), whereas our military is funded at a level several times as much, on a per capita or per GDP basis, as an average nation. So, you could cut into the military without hitting much more than fat, whereas cutting into non-military spending inevitably means cutting into the bone, since most of the fat was sliced away years ago. But, sadly, the Democrats are as addled by militarism in this country as the Republicans, so military pay was the one area of funding that was treated as a scared cow.
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You and I disagree on this one.
But then................ I think those people we elected to do a job should have actually done their job - on time.

Interesting that if they don't do their job............. it's those living paycheck to paycheck who have to pay the nasty price.
 
Zoar said:
Obviously you IGNORE the fact that his top post was refuted!

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_new...wn-begins-as-congress-remains-deadlocked?lite

"I'd think someone as well read as you would've read about the military funding extension the President signed last night. It's right there in the article I linked, about 2/3 of the way down."

...What the hell is wrong with you Righties??? Even after a lie gets straightened out you continue repeating the LIE and repeating it and repeating it!

Righties: Stop LYING!
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asking those like jennifer to quit lying falls just short of asking them not to breath. Their lives don't depend on lying, just whatever undeserved and unearned ego that dwells in their otherwise relatively empty brains does.
 
Mytzlplk said:
asking those like jennifer to quit lying falls just short of asking them not to breath. Their lives don't depend on lying, just whatever undeserved and unearned ego that dwells in their otherwise relatively empty brains does.
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I don't lie. It's you and your pals who do all the lying then project your bad morals onto others. You're a joke.
 
sorry, your "I don't lie because I choose to ignore evidence/info that completely undermines what I'm alleging to be the truth!" turd is melting in your mouth liar.

Being called a "joke" by a criminally ignorant and dishonest dweeb like you is the "joke", albeit one with no humor value.
 
Mytzlplk said:
sorry, your "I don't lie because I choose to ignore evidence/info that completely undermines what I'm alleging to be the truth!" turd is melting in your mouth liar.

Being called a "joke" by a criminally ignorant and dishonest dweeb like you is the "joke", albeit one with no humor value.
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Ahhh. More name-calling.
When it's all you've got, it's what you do, isn't it Mitzy.
 
thanks for the live demonstration of you lying.

Obviously any reader with comp skills above your grade school level, and the intergrity to match can see,

sorry, your "I don't lie because I choose to ignore evidence/info that completely undermines what I'm alleging to be the truth!" turd is melting in your mouth liar.
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that this statement is an example of/evidence for more than simple name-calling. It's a rare occasion indeed where yours truly forgets the "why" in the course of making a "You're a dumbass, and here's why." effort. What's even more amusingly stupid about the "name-calling" thing, is that it comes from someone who had just called me a "joke" -- like you're some kinda sainted princess above "name-calling" or something. You're the worst kinda liar obviously -- you even lie to yourself.

There's nary a lefty here I doubt, that hasn't seen and noted exactly what I wrote, and it more than anything else has contributed to your "disenJENuus" label. The only way you can convince yourself you're on the right side of any issue as a factual matter is to continually dishonestly dodge and deny the known facts in their totality that show your povs, etc, to be the hogwash they almost always are.
 
I wish the entire federal govt would be furloughed (including the private central bank pretending to be federal) and power restored back to states/local govts as our constitution/founding fathers intended.
 
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